The John Bowlby Memorial Lecture at the 22nd John Bowlby Memorial Conference:
"It Wasn't Safe to Feel Angry": Disrupted Early Attachment Bonds and the Development of Chronic Pain (with special reference to Coherence Therapy)by Dr. Frances Sommer AndersonMORE INFO»

This one-day program is an introduction to an experiential, empathic methodology for dispelling symptoms at their emotional roots, often in a small number of sessions. Coherence Therapy swiftly mobilizes the client's innate processes for finding and dissolving the ingrained, implicit emotional learnings and schemas that maintain a wide range of presenting problems. Therapeutic breakthroughs become a routine event in day-to-day clinical practice with this approach. Using video of real sessions, psychologists and licensed mental health professionals will learn specific techniques immediately useful with clients and a clear map of profound change for shedding unwanted behaviors, emotions, moods and thoughts as well as associated attachment patterns and emotional wounds. Evidence-based brain science of the dissolution of negative emotional learnings through memory reconsolidation will also be presented, corroborating the specific process of change used in Coherence Therapy.

The evening seminar will acquaint
attendees with Coherence Therapy briefly but vividly through session
video segments followed by a live demonstration session.
The two-day workshop will provide a grounding in Coherence Therapy
through both conceptual and experiential learning. Session video
segments and a live demonstration session will illustrate the
methodology and various techniques. Participants
will have ample opportunity to practice and receive coaching in small
groups. Lecture topics will include the corroboration that Coherence
Therapy’s process receives from the recent neurobiological discovery of
how ingrained emotional memory circuits become unlocked and unwired.

The psychotherapeutic goal of profound
change of a person’s emotional conditioning is widely assumed to
require long-term work. In this introductory workshop, participants
will practice a clinical methodology, coherence therapy, that follows
the brain’s recently discovered rules for swiftly unwiring ingrained
emotional responses. Videos and a live session will illustrate an
experiential, empathic process that can make lasting cessation of
symptoms a regular occurrence in clinical practice. A brief account of
the new neurobiology of implicit memory erasure is included.

Clinicians feel their greatest satisfaction when clients experience a deep shift that frees them from ingrained emotional reactions and symptoms. But how often does that kind of life-changing shift actually occur in our practices? In this workshop, you'll see videotaped case excerpts and a live session demonstrating Coherence Therapy, an empathetic, experiential process that helps clients access and transform the core emotional schemas underlying a given symptom or problem, which can yield profound change regularly, often in just a few sessions. You'll learn about the newest neuroscience of implicit memory re-wiring, which explains why this clinical process can end entrenched negative reactions, revise old attachment patterns, and heal deep emotional wounds, and you'll get to practice the model step-by-step.